On-line environments have been incorporated in the Distance learning programmes of the International
Equine Institute (IEI) in order to address concerns about streamlining assessment turn-around, distance
student attendance ...

Objective – To explore how collection development policies currently support the role and purpose of prison libraries, and to explore if the accessibility of circulation records impacts on patron privacy.

Throughout much of the literature on plagiarism in higher education, there is an
implicit assumption that students who understand plagiarism, who have high
ethical views and declare not to engage in plagiaristic behaviour ...

Objective – To determine the extent to which
the open access (OA) status of a journal
influences authors in their journal selection
decisions and to analyze the sources of
funding for the article-processing charges
(APCs) ...

In early 2008 five Irish tertiary institutions conducted an online survey of their students’ usage of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in their respective institutions. In 2009, the survey was run again with an expanded ...

A variety of free and commercial software applications designed to detect plagiarism from Internet sources has appeared in recent years. However, their effectiveness and impact on student behaviour has been assumed rather ...

In this paper we consider the position of the VLE in the context of the open education movement. This paper gathers data from the #VLEIreland survey in order to explore further whether open education was a concern of the ...

This study investigates the process of adjustment among adult learners by focusing on their own perceptions as they make the transition to higher education in an Irish setting, in order to gain a richer understanding about ...